Award-winning playwright June Carryl will be the special guest at a Black History Month event Thursday, Feb. 25, from 2 to 3:15 p.m. via Zoom.
Hosted by the Pasadena Senior Center, the event is part of the center’s Cultural Thursdays series.
Carryl, who is a member of the Actors Studio and SAG-AFTRA and an accomplished director and actor in theater, television and film, will be interviewed by Annie Laskey, director of special events at the center. They will discuss how Carryl’s experiences as a black woman inform her work and career, the challenges and joys of working in today’s theater and more, followed by a Q and A with the audience.
While the event is free to center members and nonmembers 50 and older, registration is required. To register, visit www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org and click on Events, Clubs and Lectures, then Online Events or call (626) 795-4331. Everyone who registers will receive an email link to access the live program.
Carryl’s play “The Good Minister from Harare” received the Saroyan/Paul 2016 Human Rights Award. Set in brutal dictator Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, it is a reimagining of Bertold Brecht’s iconic play “The Good Person of Szechuan.”
She has performed character roles in films such as “What Dreams May Come,” “Sweet November,” “Back Roads” and “Woman on Top,” and television shows including “Parenthood,” “Law and Order: L.A.,” “Castle” and “Criminal Minds.”
She had a recurring role on the Netflix series “Mindhunter” and was a regular cast member on the Hulu series “Helstrom,” part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.
While studying acting and working professionally as a playwright and stage actor for seven years in the Bay Area in the 1990s, she received the Dean Goodman Choice Award for Best Actress in Thick Description’s production of Suzi-Loren Parks’s drama “Venus.”
For more information about online activities and other programs and services of the Pasadena Senior Center during the pandemic, visit www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org or call (626) 795-4331.
The center, at 85 E. Holly St, is an independent, nonprofit organization that has been serving older adults for more than 60 years. During the pandemic, doors are open Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for social services and other critical services for older adults in need. Masks and social distancing are required.
